ADADSome 2 million students were forced to stay home from classes and many people were unable to reach jobs. ADOtherwise peaceful Chilean protests are also often used as springboards for more violent action by smaller, hard-line factions that want to overturn the social system. But the majority of the people are in favor of peaceful protests. AD“You can argue that there’s a middle class, that we decreased poverty, that today we don’t have inflation, that the macro economy is in control, etcetera, etcetera. ___Associated Press writer Luis Andres Henao in Buenos Aires, Argentina, contributed to this report.

Source: Washington Post October 22, 2019 00:33 UTC